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The beauty of gaming is that it delivers visceral thrills that we will never encounter first-hand, such as racing red Ferraris at full tilt through the streets of San Francisco. Chrome Specforce, however, effortlessly serves up a dull experience that many of us have already tasted in grim reality: playing paintball in wet woodlands. Both will provide the occasional thrill, but at the cost of several dreary, frustrating and, frankly, humiliating hours.

This is supposed to be about futuristic combat in the lush forests and murky bogs of distant worlds. The trees and swamps look good, despite the drizzle, with exotic vegetation and sunbeams penetrating the alien canopy. Specforce also makes an effort to keep up with gaming trends: as with Halo or Half-Life 2, you have vehicles to storm around in, allies to help you fight, plus missions full of shifting objectives and